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by akkartik 5y ago
"On the surface, Kartik is arguing against abstractions.." Nope. To clarify: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30019146#30038853
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by akkartik 5y ago
OP was me annoyingly quoting myself, and here's my refutation annoyingly quoting OP: "Software libraries suck. Here's why, in a sentence: they promise to be abstractions, but they end up becoming services. An abstraction free
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by akkartik 5y ago
> The fact that a library discourages you from learning it's internals is how you know it's well done. If you needed to understand it, you could. The reason you don't is because you've never had a compelling reason to
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by akkartik 5y ago
Awesome! I was thinking more about the user-facing apps you use. Scanning https://github.com/khuedoan/homelab , Gitea is Go, Grafana is Javascript (approximately), Element is Javascript, Dendrite is Go, Vault is Go. K8s
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by akkartik 5y ago
What languages does it depend on so far? Do you try to minimize the number of language eco-systems you rely on?
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by akkartik 5y ago
<3 You're fighting the good fight, keep it up.
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by akkartik 5y ago
I still believe :) I'm looking not for an economic argument but for a strategic one. I think[1] a self-hosted setup with minimal dependencies can be more resilient than a conventional one, whether with a vendor or self-hosted. https
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by akkartik 5y ago
For sure no worse than the alternatives. I also don't care about downtime. But I'm looking for something that minimizes the overheads over not self-hosting . I'd love to prove Moxie Marlinspike wrong that "people don&#x
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by akkartik 5y ago
Yeah, that's totally fine. I ask in case someone has thought about it, so I can learn from them. Doing just the fun parts of self-hosting will not get you to infrastructure .
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by akkartik 5y ago
The question I have whenever I see something like this is what the upgrade process looks like. How much time do you spend per month upgrading dependencies, how many mailing lists you're subscribed to, etc. When the log4j thing blew up,
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by akkartik 5y ago
No opinion on what anyone should do here. It's pretty clear it's a challenging situation. More generally, the way I feel about Hyrum's Law is: * The only way to guarantee you won't run afoul of Hyrum's Law is to mak
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Ten years against division of labor in software(akkartik.name)
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by akkartik 5y ago
Two obvious constraints in sharing software: * If software producers are pushing out obviously incompatible changes (excluding Hyrum's law and https://xkcd.com/1172 ) to consumers, the eco-system is broken. This include
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by akkartik 5y ago
:o
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by akkartik 5y ago
Is there any impending prospect of major CL implementations distributing asdf-devel by default?
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by akkartik 5y ago
Ha, anybody who thinks memorization is a Western thing hasn't experienced Indian schools. Isn't Flat Earthism an American phenomenon? If so, the school system wouldn't explain why Europe doesn't have it.
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by akkartik 5y ago
I'm very interested in the network stack, having explored it for a while for https://github.com/akkartik/mu before giving up. What sort of network card do you support?
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by akkartik 5y ago
There are options between those opposites, though. Here's my preferred point[1] in the space of possibilities: It's impossible for all people to effectively use software over the long term without learning about its internals. S
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by akkartik 5y ago
Yeah, I noticed the lack of quantitative data as well. The biggest qualitative red flag for me in the whole article is sending victims back to live with the abuser very soon after the abuser has been found guilty and served a penalty. Reaso
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by akkartik 5y ago
Don't forget the forking and remixing of each other's code. <3
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by akkartik 5y ago
I've liked this article for many years, but it's been hard to focus on it since learning about the dark consequences of the Amish way of life: https://www.cosmopolitan.com/lifestyle/a30284631/amish-sexua.
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by akkartik 5y ago
I don't particularly like Chromebooks, but this doesn't seem like a fair characterization. You can put Chromebooks in Developer Mode without needing anyone's permission. You can install Linux on them. You can run Linux progra
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by akkartik 5y ago
This was kinda what I was trying to suss out. I've gradually started thinking of Macbooks as "not general-purpose." For example, I can no longer get gdb working on them. At least it's imposed enough barriers that I haven
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by akkartik 5y ago
I see, so you mean rooted or unlocked?
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by akkartik 5y ago
"I can’t open this website I always use to make a reservation to volunteer." Regressions are regressions. You don't get to make excuses if you unilaterally changed something for someone.
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by akkartik 5y ago
I don't understand why you consider the iPad to not be a general-purpose computer. Do you mean an iPad without a web browser? Is iOS really good at keeping ancient apps working on ancient devices?
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by akkartik 5y ago
Give them honest feedback? The org tracking responses isn't the org responsible for your poor experience.
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by akkartik 5y ago
<3 Yes please, I'm on akkartik on irc.esper.net, irc.libera.chat and irc.tilde.chat. More options: http://akkartik.name/contact
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by akkartik 5y ago
One theme of this post -- and my site in general -- is that blog posts are a poor use case to optimize code for. I'd love for you to `git clone` the repo mentioned here and try reading it with your usual editor and so on. That's t
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by akkartik 5y ago
This was my attempt at providing easy graphics to kids inspired by the BBC Micro: https://github.com/akkartik/mu/tree/main/shell Here's a 6-minute demo: https://archive.org/details&#

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